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Controlled and banned items

Advisory warning for travellers to Hong Kong (including transit passengers)
In addition to firearms and ammunition as described on this page, stun guns, tear gas sprays, knuckle dusters and extendable batons are also classified as banned items by the laws of Hong Kong no matter if you are arriving or just transiting at Hong Kong. Offenders are liable upon conviction to a fine of HK$100,000, and imprisonment for 14 years. For further information please refer to the Hong Kong Police department website.

Banned items

For the safety of all our customers, please ensure your bags do not contain any of the following banned items. Because we only fly to airports with thorough security checks, your items will be confiscated if they do not meet the requirements.

Explosives and incendiary substances

You may not bring any explosive item or incendiary substance when you travel. This includes devices capable of or those appearing capable of causing serious injury or posing a threat to the safety of the aircraft.

Corrosive materials such as mercury (which may be contained in thermometers or blood pressure gauges), acids, alkalis and wet cell batteries

Corrosives (car or other wet batteries, mercury)

Radioactive materials

Dangerous items

You may not travel with items and lithium-powered vehicles that could cause serious harm to other passengers. This includes any other substances that present danger inflight such as magnetised, offensive or irritating materials.

Small vehicles powered by lithium ion batteries, such as the AirWheel, Solowheel, Hoverboard, and other self-balancing scooters and mini Segways

Attaché briefcases with installed alarm devices

Incorporate lithium batteries

Pyrotechnic material

Animal products and EU travel

As a broad rule, passengers are not permitted to bring any consignment of meat products or milk products into the EU, with the exception of powdered infant milk, baby food or special food or pet foodstuffs required for medical purposes.

Products of animal origin may carry pathogens that can cause infectious diseases in animals. To prevent the spread of disease and for the general safety of our passengers, we are obliged to follow the EUROPA guidelines on animal health.

As a general rule, passengers are not allowed to bring any consignment of meat, meat products, milk or milk products into EU. Please note that passengers arriving from Croatia, The Faeroe Islands, Greenland or Iceland may bring under 10 kilograms of such products for personal consumption.

The notable exception to the above rule is travel with up to 2 kilograms of powdered infant milk, infant food, or special foods/special pet feed required for medical purpose. The items must meet the following special requirements:

The product does not require refrigeration before consumption

It is a product of packaged proprietary brand

The packaging is not broken

For fishery products (including fish and certain shellfish such as prawns, lobsters, dead mussels and dead oysters), passengers are allowed to bring in such products up to 20 kilograms in total, or one fish that weights 20 kilograms or over.

This excludes those arriving from the Faeroe Islands or Iceland who have no weight restrictions on transporting fishery products, provided they are for personal consumption.

Confiscated items

We don’t like having to say no to our customers, but we ask you to comply with the above regulations so your safety is not compromised.

Legally, we are not responsible or liable for items removed from passengers by airport security personnel. This is because they are acting in accordance with international and governmental regulations.

If you do have an item that is confiscated, we cannot guarantee its return to you. However, if the security personnel return the item to us, we are happy to store it for a total of 7 days for you to pick up. In the best case scenario, we would of course like to see all customers reunited with their confiscated items, and we do everything we can to make sure this is the case.